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Dangerous Waters

+1 Dangerous Waters, and if you can try to track down the *thick* spiral bound users manual...

The Silent Hunter series is considered pretty top notch. SH4 - Wolves Of The Pacific puts you in command of US subs in the PTO if you don't care to "wolfpack" it against Allied shipping in the Atlantic.

Shells Of Fury 1914 is worthwhile if you're interested in taking a look at sub actions of WW-1.

Sub Command?

I think that Dangerous water lets youcontrol fleets or task forces.That's not bad, but Sub Command is submarine oriented.

Steam has a package with 688(I) Hunter/Killer, Dangerous Waters, Fleet Command and Sub Command for a good price http://store.steampowered.com/sub/200/

Zup wrote:

Sub Command?

I think that Dangerous water lets youcontrol fleets or task forces.That's not bad, but Sub Command is submarine oriented.

It's not a task force game - you take direct control of a sub or any one of the various sub/anti-sub "platforms" offered; frigates, aircraft and helicopters in a mission/campaign based setting. It's basically the final iteration of the original SC with the addition of new US, Russian and Chinese tactical gear to choose from. And pretty vast.

The Silent Service series for Dos(box). It's available on GOG and Steam.

I used to play that on my NES.

If you don't mind using DOS or Dosbox:

Aces of the Deep
Subwar 2050 (GOG)
Archimedean Dynasty (GOG)

tincup wrote:

It's not a task force game - you take direct control of a sub or any one of the various sub/anti-sub "platforms" offered; frigates, aircraft and helicopters in a mission/campaign based setting. It's basically the final iteration of the original SC with the addition of new US, Russian and Chinese tactical gear to choose from. And pretty vast.

I thought that you could "jump" from one plataform to another (i.e.: you are commanding a Seawolf and get into a Orion with some keypresses). That gives you some "task force" capability, and also can give you some unfair advantage.

Maybe I'm wrong and you must stick to a platform during the mission...

You need to check out this site:

http://www.subsim.com/index.php

It has a wealth of reviews, information and downloads on naval simulations.

FYI, Silent Service 1+2 is on sale this weekend for $1.49 at GOG

A few minutes ago I almost bought Silent Hunter 1 and 3 for 50ct each 😁

Can you guys recommend these games?

Arctic wrote:

A few minutes ago I almost bought Silent Hunter 1 and 3 for 50ct each 😁

Can you guys recommend these games?

I just glanced over a few reviews and it seems that Silent Hunter gets more favorable reviews than Silent Service. Check out that subsim.com site that was linked a few posts up. Here's a forum thread to start you off:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=129393

I played Silent Service on my ZX Spectrum. It was the best submarine simulator for that computer. So, keep in mind that:

- Silent Service was published (on ZX Spectrum) in 1987, so PC version should have been released at the same year (wikipedia says that it was released on 1985). buckeye was looking for games from this century.
- Silent Hunter was published on 1996.
- Some things that people keeps forgetting is that old games can not be directly compared, and that they must be measured against their age. I mean, I'm sure that Silent Hunter is more realistic and have more characteristics than Silent Service, but there's no way to fit those things into a 48k computer or into a XT computer.

Silent Service received 8.18/10 (from users) on World of Spectrum, 8.4/10 (from users) on Lemon 64. At that time, it was the best sub simulator. But it can't be compared to a game made 10 years later, running on computers way more powerful.

If I'd had to recommend a realistic simulator, I'd said any Silent Hunter (but not Silent Hunter 5, it was too many quircks with DRM). But if you need the best simulator for Spectrum, C64, NES or for a 8086 PC... get Silent Service ASAP.

I was pretty fond of Brøderbund's Wolfpack way back in the day, but it's probably pretty far from "realistic".

Aideka wrote:

Steam has a package with 688(I) Hunter/Killer, Dangerous Waters, Fleet Command and Sub Command for a good price http://store.steampowered.com/sub/200/

Currently on sale at gamersgate for 4,50€.

http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-CNAVALCP/complet … val-combat-pack